There is so much misinformation floating around in this thread, it blows my mind. It has been shown that PC1066 RDRAM has latency similar to DDR, I will dig up a llink on that soon. RDRAM does not cost twice as much as DDR. Latency has NOTHING to do with bandwidth. How anyone could think otherwise is shocking.
Well, RDRAM was never designed to be used in servers, so thats a non-argument, and as far as the "niche market", i could refer you to many articles, but Ill just quote HardOCP:
So, looks like Intel is sticking with RAMBUS.
Hah, this arguement made sense about, oh, 9 months ago when the P4 was stuck at 1.7GHz, but you look sort of foolish today trying to claim that the AthlonXP architecture is anywhere near as flexible as the P4 architecture, Athon is old technology, there's no way around it.
Kramer
Intel will soon relegate RDRAM to nothing more than a niche market, and possibly not even in server roles.
Well, RDRAM was never designed to be used in servers, so thats a non-argument, and as far as the "niche market", i could refer you to many articles, but Ill just quote HardOCP:
Our friends at Anandtech reported yesterday that Mr. Siu had stated that the current i850E would be the last chipset supporting RDRAM, although upon writing this it seems that the statement has been removed from their website. Mr. Siu explained to us that he had been misquoted. While he would not go into detail, he gave the impression that Intel would continue to support RDRAM in the future. So it seems as though we'll certainly see RDRAM and DDR RAM both stay strong in Intel's current marketing strategies.
So, looks like Intel is sticking with RAMBUS.
Finally, how do you explain the "elderly" Athlon XP DDR platform outperforming any P4 implementation clock for clock?
Hah, this arguement made sense about, oh, 9 months ago when the P4 was stuck at 1.7GHz, but you look sort of foolish today trying to claim that the AthlonXP architecture is anywhere near as flexible as the P4 architecture, Athon is old technology, there's no way around it.
Kramer